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Teen Book Spotlight--Fall Month Titles!!!

Our teen book spotlight this week is on books that are all about getting in the Fall spirit as they are set in the Fall months!  These stories are sure to get you thinking about what it means to be in the Autumn season with apple picking, pumpkin carving, pumpkin spice lattes, and whatever else gets you in the Fall mood.  There is a wide variety from fantasy and mystery to realistic and graphic novels so there is a little something for every reader.  These books and more can be found by searching the catalog using the search tag #yafallspirit as well as on Libby and Hoopla.  Check back next week for a new teen book spotlight and if you have any book suggestions, please let us know!!

Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell--Every autumn, seasonal best friends Deja and Josiah work in a pumpkin patch together, and every Halloween they say goodbye only to reunite the following September. This year, as they are both seniors, they know that this is the last goodbye. While Josiah has resigned himself to feeling melancholy, Deja decides they should go out with a bang by searching out Josiah's crush, the beautiful girl who works in the Fudge Shoppe.

The Accident Season by Moira Fowley-Doyle--For some mystic, unknown reason, every October becomes Cara and her family's "accident season." They become accident prone beyond belief, though to different degrees. One year her father died. The next it was only a lot of scrapes and bruises. However, now Cara, her stepbrother Sam, and her best friend, Bea, are seventeen, and Cara has started asking questions about why October is the way it is for her family--questions with dangerous answers.

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson--Ellingham Academy in Vermont is full of riddles, twisting pathways, and winding gardens. Shortly after it is opened by Albert Ellingham in 1936, Albert's wife and daughter are kidnapped. The only clue is a riddle describing various methods of murder and signed, "Truly, Devious." Years later, true-crime buff Stevie Bell enters Ellingham Academy with a goal to solve the cold case. Then Truly Devious makes a surprising return, and another death rocks Ellingham Academy.

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater--Blue Sargent's mother is a clairvoyant who can speak to the dead on St. Mark's Eve. On this night, Blue and her mother go to the church graveyard, and Blue stands by as the dead-invisible to Blue-stroll past. But this year is different. This time Blue sees someone, a boy from the nearby Aglionby Academy. The problem is that this boy isn't invisible, which means only one thing-either the boy is someone Blue has killed, or he is her true love. 

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley--Half Anishinaabe and half white, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine puts her plans for medical school on hold after her uncle overdoses on meth and her grandmother has a stroke. Sticking around her Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, home, Daunis is dealt further tragedy when she witnesses her best friend's murder by her meth-addicted boyfriend. Using her knowledge of chemistry, and fueled by rage against what's happening to those on the reservation, Daunis begins an investigation into the components of a deadly circulating form of the drug, who's dealing it, and how she can protect those in her community from it.

Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow--Seventeen-year-old Charlie is hospitalized because she suffers from a self-injury disorder—she's a cutter. When she's released prematurely, Charlie has to find her own way out of the dark place she's in after suffering tremendous loss and abuse. And her will to survive may be her only hope in overcoming the cruel hand life has dealt her.